Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Past

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former flow and pageant.
Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
Martial (40–104) Ancient Roman Latin Poet

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
Unknown

The biggest thing in today’s sorrow is the memory of yesterday’s joy.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the past.
Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903) English Clergyman, Writer

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist

It is not the literal past, the “facts” of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel (1929–2015) Irish Dramatist, Short Story Writer

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
French Proverb

Let the past drift away with the water.
Japanese Proverb

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert (1920–86) American Science Fiction Writer

The past always looks better than it was; it’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.
Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) American Author, Writer, Humorist

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion (1934–2021) American Essayist, Novelist, Memoirist

Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past.
Anonymous

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Soong Mei-ling (1898–2003) First Lady of the Republic of China

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.
Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet

It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character’s attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.
Connie Zweig (b.1949) American Minister, Columnist, Psychotherapist

Here’s to the past. Thank God it’s past.
Unknown

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Charles J. Givens (1941–98) American Self-Help Writer

They spend their time looking forward to the past.
John Osborne (1929–94) English Playwright, Actor

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow.
Unknown

The past is never dead, it is not even past.
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American Novelist

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